December 14, 2007

When a dog bites a man, that's not news. When a man bites a dog, that is news! And so it is. A man in southern India wrestled and bit a rabid dog hard in the throat after he learned that it was fleeing with a duck from his compound. The strange news was reported by the Hindustan Times.

The 65-year-old man wrestled with the dog in a ditch near his home on Wednesday and bit it so hard that it bled from its neck while one of his hands was in the grip of the animal's mouth, the report said.

Neighbours separated the two and beat the dog to death. The man was being treated in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram for rabies, it said.